Debra J. Saunders — This land is … their land

Chronicle columnist Debra J. Saunders talks about eminent domain and how it pushed out John Revelli, who was evicted by the city of Oakland from his property so that a private developer could build apartments on his land. Oakland also evicted Tony Fung, Revelli’s next-door neighbor. The evictions follow a decision in June, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that governments can seize private property to give it to private developers because those deals constituted “public use.”